Maternity Monday: Long Sleeve Tee Shirt Dress
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This simple tee shirt dress has a lot of positive reviews on the Target website — unlike a lot of their other maternity clothes, interestingly enough. (For a good time, read reviews of this dress.) I like the simplicity of this one, the price, and the fact that it’s apparently versatile enough to dress up not only for work but even for fancier events (a number of reviewers note wearing it for their shower or company holiday party). It’s available in five colors, sizes XS-XXL. (Two other winners, according to reviewers, although they’re both a bit casual for my taste: here and here.) Liz Lange for Target Maternity Long Sleeve Tee Shirt Dress
Sales of note for 5/14/25
(See all of the latest workwear sales at Corporette!)
- Nordstrom – Beauty Deals up to 25% off (ends 5/17)
- Ann Taylor – Suit Yourself! 30% off suiting (ends 5/16) + 25% off your full price purchase (ends 5/18) + extra 60% off sale (ends 5/14)
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 25% off
- Eloquii – Up to 60% off everything + extra 60% off sale + $1 shipping on all orders
- J.Crew – Up to 50% off long-weekend styles + 50% off select swim and coverups
- J.Crew Factory – Extra 50% off clearance + extra 15% off $100+ + extra 20% off $125+
- M.M.LaFleur – Lots of twill suiting on sale! Try code CORPORETTE15 for 15% off
- Spanx – Lots of workwear on sale, some up to 70% off
- Talbots – 40% off all markdowns (ends 5/18) + 30% off dresses, skirts, accessories, and shoes
And — here are some of our latest threadjacks of interest – working mom questions asked by the commenters!!
- The concept of “backup care” is so stupid…
- I need tips on managing employees in BigLaw who have to leave for daycare pickup…
- I’m thinking of leaning out to spend more time with my family – how can I find the perfect job for that?
- I’m now a SAHM and my husband needs to step up…
- How can I change my thinking to better recognize some of my husband’s contributions as important, like organizing the shed?
- What are your tips to having a good weekend with kids, especially with little kids? Do you have a set routine or plan?
I am really pleased to read this blog posts which consists of lots of helpful information, thanks for providing these kinds of statistics.
Hive, I am at work and so, so tired. 7 weeks. I want to curl up and go to sleep. No morning sickness, but I’m definitely kind of nauseous. I’ve just been sipping tea and water. 2 more hours before I can leave. So….tired……
I tried to buy this dress yesterday! Despite appearing to be in stock, it informed me after I checked out with the rest of my order that it was not in stock. Boo!
Kat – I really like this dress. Nice post.
Nanny called in sick today with a 103 degree fever so my husband is home with the baby. We’re guessing the nanny has the flu so I think we’re going to try my firm’s backup care at a local center tomorrow (and until the nanny is better).
My daughter 16 months old and has never been in a daycare setting before. She’s been in a nannyshare since 4 months and has never had an unknown sitter (only nanny and grandparents). Any suggestions for how to make this go smoothly? She has some signs and good receptive language, but no words yet.
The other day we were talking about “mom judgment,” but are there things you judge yourself on and find you come up short (meaning, are there things you do that you are not proud of)? Generally my mantra is “you do you, I do me,” but over the weekend my husband and I had this incident with our toddler at nap time, and I kind of fell apart. My toddler is what we call “not a good sleeper.” Because of our schedules, my husband is the one who regularly handles bedtime. He never had the stomach for sleep training (hated hearing our baby cry, would totally cave), and I never had the energy to fight him on it, so now we have a toddler who is incapable of putting herself to sleep. No matter how tired she is, with us, she will only nap in a moving car. At night, to get her to go to sleep, we let her watch TV in her bed (shows on netflix or amazon prime) until she falls asleep. Yes, we got a TV for her room (again, smart TV so all she watches is netflix or amazon prime).
She is a great kid — intelligent, curious, kind, friendly and talkative, and she has a healthy appetite — but all I can think is how I am screwing her up for life because there is a TV in her room and that is how she falls asleep. Not sure what I am looking for exactly, other than commiseration that this is not a massive fail in the grand scheme of things. And that every mom has their secret shame I guess.
Ok, so update on sleep training after the weekend:
We had two nights of only one wakeup each (yay!) so I decided to try nap training. The first one, she went down within 25 minutes. The second one….not at all (I let her go 35 minutes), and got herself so hysterical she threw up. I climbed into her crib with her, nursed, and she fell asleep (hiccuping the whole time, sad). Soooo…that wasn’t great. Then Dad skipped the afternoon nap (and snack…grrr) while he had her. Last night she woke up several times; I reassured her and she fell back asleep each time. Today we start nap training at daycare….I’m worried about that.
I think what I have learned is that:
1. I need to cut the 3 am feeding and just stay really consistent with letting her put herself back to sleep without eating; she is almost 12 months old, eats solid food (sooo much solid food) and needs to be tapering on milk anyway.
2. I also let her take a nap with me on Saturday, and I think I need to either get on the nap training whole-heartedly or not do it at all. We’ll see how it goes at daycare this week. It may be that crying through naps is counterproductive to night time sleeping, in which case I’ll drop the nap training.
3. She is also popping a tooth and started saying some words this weekend, so consistency will be key since we may have some sleep disruptions for a few days.
Gang, where can I go for more dressy, work-appropriate maternity wear? My pregnancy wardrobe skews pretty casual and I need a few upgraded pieces. Complications: this is for sure, come h3ll or high water, my last baby, so I’ve been loathe to spend a lot/any money on maternity pieces — but the friend who loaned me a bunch of stuff is a SAHM, so obviously tons of jeans/casual tops but not as much work-appropriate gear. I live in the Midwest, so it’s cold now but but I’m not due until summer so I’ve got about 6 months to go.
I work in a business-casual environment but in a highly-visible leadership role, so I need to dress up more. I’m a big scarf/jewelry wearer, so simple stuff I can dress up with accessories is great. Just feeling completely uninspired at the moment! (FWIW, I may buy the dress featured today.)
Not quite sure how to phrase this as a question, but I was thinking that this would be a great topic of discussion among intelligent and high achieving moms out there – how do you go about evaluating and planning for your kids’ early schooling?
For us, both husband and I come from lower-class backgrounds, and we just went to the county public schools in our area – I don’t think that our parents put much thought into it, and there really weren’t any practical alternatives anyway. And they were fine, but could have been better. We’ve always discussed the idea of choosing a private (possibly Catholic, even though we’re not very religious) school, but now we live in a very nice part of town that has the reputation of having the best public schools in the area, and that, combined with our financial situation (OK, but not great enough that I’d be happy to add a big tuition payment) makes public school seem much more appealing. But, to be honest, I don’t really know much about the public schools or the system as a whole, and people have a lot of strong opinions that often seem, well, less than completely well-formed. How do you go about evaluating and understanding the schools/education styles/everything else that you need to know (or what do you even need to know) about schooling options for your kid? (My first just turned 2, so I’ve got time, but I’d like to start gaining some awareness.)
2 part question:
1) Have you ever returned from maternity leave to a new job? I’m applying for a job, and while long-term I think it would be the right move, I worry about returning straight from maternity leave since the first year in any job is usually a big transition (for me, at least). I worry that it will exacerbate the growing pains associated with leaving my baby with a nanny for the first time, figuring out work/life balance, etc.
2) Would you be willing to cut your maternity leave short for the right position? I have a great opportunity and this particular job does not open up often, but I’m hesitant to give up any of my maternity leave. I’m in big law now and I hate to give up this special time, but don’t want to be short sighted if this new job is a better fit in the long term.